Beach Rats from Eliza Hittman.
Ranks right up there alongside Larry Clark’s Kids and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.
These three films of ordinary youth make a strong and impactful trifecta of misspent youth.
Growing up on the plastic and lurid ideals of Brett Easton Ellis’ book Less Than Zero (not the the horrendous movie with the insufferable Robert Downey Jr), thank god there are these filmmakers that take the time to depict kids from another walk of life, another world even, with the compassion and tenderness that oftentimes gets overlooked, but they’re all as potent— maybe even more so, than any depiction of privilege and wealth that Frank Ocean slyly, cynically laments of in his my-go-to-escapist track “Super Rich Kids”.